Dark Summer

2015

US

1h 21min

15

Directed by: Paul Solet

Written by: Mike Le

Cast: Peter Stormare, Keir Gilchrist, Grace Phipps

Daniel (Gilchrist) is a schoolboy under house arrest for stalking classmate Mona (Phipps), but things turn nightmarish when she starts pursuing him. The early promise ebbs away into a conventional haunted-house mystery, and the result is both silly and humourless, a fairly standard chiller with some decent ideas.

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Paul Solet is at the helm of an intermittently scary but rather po-faced horror

A teen horror with an indie movie aesthetic and a self-consciously solemn vibe, Paul Solet's Dark Summer has promising elements at the outset: a distinctly creepy protagonist with whom it’s uncomfortable to have one’s sympathies aligned; and a pertinent…